When ethnically charged graffiti began appearing in her town of Mostar, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nikolina Kulidzan paid little attention. In 1992, she was a 12-year-old Serbian girl in love with a Croatian boy named Marko. She was unaware that her country, and her budding relationship with Marko, would be torn apart by a brutal civil war.
On this week’s Modern Love podcast, the actor Joanna Kulig reads Ms. Kulidzan’s moving essay, “A Kiss Deferred by Civil War.”
Ms. Kulig stars in the film “Cold War,” in theaters now. Ms. Kulidzan is a writer living in Alexandria, Va., with her husband. Stay tuned after the reading to hear from Ms. Kulidzan and the Modern Love editor Daniel Jones.
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